Building Gigawatt Data Centres in Space – Feasible or Fantasy?

Jeff Bezos recently gave an interview in Turin, Italy where he talked about building gigantic gigawatt data centres in space. This video looks into how difficult it would be to build such a large orbiting data centre in space.

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00:00 Intro
01:28 Advantages of Data Centres in Space
04:21 Power Generation
06:15 Radiation Hardening
07:57 Thermal Management (Cooling)
09:53 Vulnerability to Orbital Debris
10:43 Launch Logistics
11:12 Are 1 GW Data Centres Possible with Today’s Technology?
12:02 Final Thoughts
12:53 Outro

Sources:

Jeff Bezos makes wild prediction about data centres as energy demand grows: https://nypost.com/2025/10/03/business/jeff-bezos-expects-data-centers-will-be-built-in-space-in-10-to-20-years/

Redwire Corporation, Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA): https://x.com/RedwireSpace/status/1971176630946005105

Global Electricity Usage: https://semianalysis.com/2024/03/13/ai-datacenter-energy-dilemma-race/